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Not Down with a Brown Harry Potter (or Prince of Persia)?

From the Head of the Q.U. Crypto-Visual Media Department

Warner Brothers is suing a Bollywood film company because the title of their film is ‘Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors.’  And Warner Bros. thinks that name is too much like Harry Potter. 

Seriously.

Yet the film has nothing to do with wizards or magic.  It is a Home Alone-style story.  And according to the article, Hari is a common Indian name, and "puttar" means son. 

Meanwhile, a quick search of the ethernet (purely as research for this article, I assure you) reveals that there are a number of porn movies that are actually based on the Harry Potter films:

Hairy Pooter and the Sorcerer’s Bone
Harry Potter in Hermione’s Chamber of Secrets

 

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